| 词汇 | otiose |
| 释义 | otiose adjective formaluk /ˈəʊ.ti.əʊs//ˈəʊ.ʃi.əʊs/ us /ˈoʊ.t̬i.oʊs/ used to describe a word or phrase, or sometimes an idea, that is unnecessary or has been used several times: （词、短语或观点）无用的，多余的，冗赘的 The use of the word "recumbent" is otiose after the word "recline".在 recline 一词后面使用 recumbent 肯定是多余的。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability Examples of otioseotiose So why not simplify matters and drop the now otiose "caring proviso"? So there is no need for additional reparation, and the satisfaction theory of the atonement is otiose. To connect them with some vendetta against linguistic and logical structure seems philosophically otiose. Because the juvenile hearing was conducted in private, there would be no otiose public stigma associated with its outcome. Rather, they claim that his principle is otiose. In that case my argument would be otiose. This, he thinks, makes otiose the 'search for a transcendental source for morality'. It would be otiose to draw up the list. These explanations, however, are otiose. It would be otiose to describe a few tiles at random when the book's great strength and invaluable gift is the uncompressible view of the whole. Nothing soft, otiose, irrelevant cumbered your pages. In respect of our domestic legislation, it is completely otiose and it would create legal anomalies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That seems to me a totally otiose statement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that that is a wholly otiose collection of words in that particular part of the proposed amendment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 H it is, is it their view that it is also unnecessary and otiose in paragraph (a)? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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